Heard

The other day I asked Olivia to go into her room and play human vaccum to see how many little things of trash she could gather off of her bedroom floor.  I brought her a grocery sack and said that she could deposit the trash in there.


A few minutes later I thought I would go check on my little human vacuum to see how progress was coming along.  As I turned the corner to enter her room I passed the open grocery bag, which hung as empty as I had left it on her bedroom door knob.  Olivia spotted me coming in, and said quickly, "Mom, I need to keep these".  "Keep what?" I asked.  She pointed to her dresser. "These trashs" she said.  I looked to where she was pointing to see  a carefully placed pile that was made up of broken strings, little pieces of miss-matched curly ribbon, and an assortment of colorful, used, and broken hair bands.


"Why" I asked, "must you keep these?"


"Because they remind me to be magical".


Case closed. She won me over with that one. And as far as I'm concerned that little magic provoking pile of "trashs" can stay there forever.